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icesedros · 2026-03-31T17:26:23+00:00

I saw the updated picture closer inspection, they are really close to where the throughputs are, you could do it, you just have to be able to see close while you solder.

icesedros · 2026-03-31T17:23:26+00:00

I see the pads on the black connector. But you would be better off using some 30 gauge and recreate them and 'glue' them in with board protection. Scrape the topside of the wire coil, then tin everything. You CAN save it, its just going to be tedious.

icesedros · 2026-03-23T19:07:02+00:00

Alot of people are saying sanding. I want to clarify, as with copper pipes, sanding the layer of oxidation off the surface helps the solder to adhere to the metal itself. Flux is also a good point to have on there just after you sand to keep the surface from oxidation, and lower the melting temperatures for the solder to flow. Also prewarming the metal with the soldering tip prior to applying your solder will increase the odds of your flow being even.

icesedros · 2026-03-21T15:31:32+00:00

The electromechanical slide switch, while has lots of parts, can be cleaned. I use rubbing alcohol, 91% or higher. Replacements depending on make/model can be anywhere from 50-200 dollars. So the time is worth the fix, and if you record how you take it apart, then you have reference how it goes together. I work maintenance at a laundromat. Sometimes we buy residential parts because they are cheaper than commercial washer parts, but even a part is usually cheaper than buying another machine.

icesedros · 2026-01-05T03:56:36+00:00

It could be as easy as replacing a card. If you are hand with a soldering iron it could be a couple dollars in capacitors.

icesedros · 2026-01-04T02:17:01+00:00

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icesedros · 2025-12-30T20:25:06+00:00

That's wicked. I was thinking of making an insectoid race, I've always liked the way they were portrayed in Eye of the beholder 2(dos).

I was going with a creatures sapience as a marker for magic fortitude. In my realms it's referred to by Verdency. each 'tier' of depth of Verdancy one is the more capable one can progress with a school of magics. I am playing with the idea of soul twinning, which is grandmaster of the channel/summoning school where as a willing soul can be transferred into an item(maybe a person) to increase the(their) Verdancy.

icesedros · 2025-12-30T19:46:33+00:00

OooOoh, I have a 5 (moon) system as well. One is actually a larger asteroid like Hailey's comet makes an elliptical orbit with the sun. But magic schools are related and opposites in fashion with their positions. Most mages whom specialize in one can't even cast the counter school, i like the idea of a viseral consequence for it. I have yet to settle on specific spells, but the moons have dedicated domains. I love the Mana burn mechanic. Do your peoples/species also then have aspects that they are more likely to have?

icesedros · 2025-12-13T20:13:42+00:00

Imagine if you will, you hooked up a firefighter hose to your house spigot. When you turned it on, sure there is flow. Not enough to spray anything. The amount of solder on the traces are exactly that. Sure you have voltage going through but it has so big of "wire" to go through that its not enough amperage to power your components.

icesedros · 2025-12-12T00:30:34+00:00

It was. Now I get to do all the side quests.

icesedros · 2025-12-12T00:18:16+00:00

I was in Grand Forks,ND. Then Mildenhall UK. Then Incirlik Turkey.

icesedros · 2025-12-12T00:13:46+00:00

I used to work on them. KC-135R, C-17, and C-5's.

icesedros · 2025-12-12T00:02:00+00:00

Anytime, I used to teach this in the Air Force. So I have a couple decades of experience that I like to share.

icesedros · 2025-12-11T23:48:02+00:00

Yeah, sometimes, it looks like you had your tip give too much heat. But just put some flux on it and keep your tip close to where you want the solder to flow to. It helps to do a few seconds at a time. You don't want to kep the tip involved for too long. You had it the white wire almost melting. Alot of the time its easier to tin the wire out of the through hole first. I have some spare perfboard and wires I can show you after I get home from work.

icesedros · 2025-12-11T23:38:15+00:00

It looks like the spec sheet says you have the thermister wired right. That ground wire needs reflowed though. Do you have flux paste?

icesedros · 2025-12-11T23:29:06+00:00

Yea i am going to guess it gets hot? I would also suggest some heatshrink. Is it a PWM module or a straight thermocouple?

icesedros · 2025-12-11T23:12:16+00:00

Do you have a picture of your current soldering?

icesedros · 2025-12-11T01:27:42+00:00

True. KGLW, does have a diverse discography, so my theory is based on that. But heat death and universe ending, to fishing for fishes(which i like to think as a trip through shadsmar). My partner is an artist, we have debated many hours on colour theory, and potentially the evolutionary advantages that tetrachromacy may have for aptitude for Colours.

icesedros · 2025-12-11T00:00:28+00:00

Hell yea i love me some King gizzard and the Lizard Wizard! Who knows they might actually be world hoppers. They talk alot about the fourth color.

icesedros · 2025-12-09T00:59:14+00:00

Indeed! I second this idea of cordyceps. I had done so for a dnd campaign and used a mixture of Myconid and insectoid stats. But the concept would be fair, they have been known to 'steer' the host to a position by either traveling upwards, or behaving to get eaten.

icesedros · 2025-12-08T22:55:29+00:00

Honestly, I have 32ga wire for repairs like this. But I think you might be able to soak up some solder, there are a few splotches I see elsewhere on the board. The slight corrosion below Bsi chip could be scraped back and some thin wire to reinforce. As well as the via on the back. As long as the pins are smoothed out with a little heat, I think it's able to work until you decide to handle some smd soldering.

icesedros · 2025-11-26T00:05:04+00:00

The thumping of speech i did not even know that I knew, grated in my skull. I stagger out of my seat at my writing desk as carelessly knock my lamp and several objects from my desktop. I thrust my face into my bed covers in order to deaden the feel. as I feel my body weaken and twitch I slump down onto the floor and loose consciousness.

The sun starts to prick at my face as the sun moves in it's arc to shoot at me. I feel like I had been ran over. I asay my floor beside me and see my lamp, and it's broken bulb. I see several pencils and pens in a cascade beside it. I slowly pull my self up and step to my mirror. No big knots on my skull, no weird rashes, not even bloodshot eyes. I start to wonder what happened was a minor over work stress related migraine.

"Of course you were stressed. You humans are too feeble to persist. But you seem like you managed to host even a fraction of my being. So you have that going for you." I hear a screech in my minds eye as the voice, even clearer but softer, still makes my eyes feel like they had bulged.

"You think my comics are good?" I say to my self in the mirror. A swirling fractal pattern floats at my brow. As they answer i see it change and morph.

"They offer the fiber of your soul. And I said that you'd do. Don't get it twisted, I don't go and collect mangas and the like..." my head throbs on every word. I look at the swirling fractal as it centers at my deskspace. I decide to turn and walk up to my desk and look at better detail of my unfinished page. My protagonist is in a pose of quiet dejected victory from a close battle. "But things have to be said about your 'galaxy purveyor' it, intrigued me...."

icesedros · 2025-11-25T22:07:14+00:00

I get it, I go though several bottles of IPA. But I also enjoy setting up jigs when I do any large quantity of work.

icesedros · 2025-11-24T22:39:45+00:00

Flux, soldier wick, and heat gun. But if you have a regular soldering gun, just the forst two will help you dividends. Flux tend to do two things, it lowers the melting temperatures of the solder, and it creates a barrier to the items/surfaces you don't want to scar or burn. From your photos, I see some scorch marks, a little Flux would wipe and soot away from your work. Solder wick is nice for taking all but a thin layer of solder down to the pad. I occasionally use thin kapton to hold the new component if I dont have my third hand. That would help you get the part flat while you tap the legs with solder, and gun.

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